2024届高考英语阅读理解五步法专项带练(37)讲义

（素材来源：重庆市南开中学2023-2024学年高三1月第五次质量检测英语试题） ①The world feels like it's being set alight. Wildfires in Canada and Europe, floods in China, and a never-ending stream of record-breaking heat waves have constantly dominated newspaper headlines. The feeling that time is quickly running out is very real. But that feeling is a barrier to action-Nothing has changed when we've called for action before, so considering the seemingly limited time window. ②Our past efforts tell us there is a chance. The world has solved large environmental problems that seemed impossible to overcome at the time. An eye-opening example is acid rain. Studying how the world dealt with this Geo-politically divisive problem can give us some inspiration on how we can address climate change today. ③It has mostly slipped from the public conversation, but acid rain was the leading environmental problem of the 1990s. Caused by sulfur dioxide （二氧化硫）, it dissolved old sculptures, stripped forests of their leaves, and polluted rivers and lakes. Emissions from the UK would blow over to Sweden and Norway; emissions from the US would blow over to Canada. This is a classic game theory problem; outcomes don't only depend on the actions of one country but those of the others too. Eventually, government officials had to sign international agreements, place emissions limits on power plants and start to reduce coal burning. Interventions were incredibly effective. In Europe, sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 84 percent and in the US by 90 percent. ④Surely climate change is not the perfect parallel for the environmental problems we've solved before. It will be harder. It will involve every country, rich and poor. But change is happening. To accelerate action, we need to have the expectation that things can move faster. Past lessons tell us that these expectations are not unrealistic. 28. How does the sense of urgency affect attitudes to climate change? A. It discourages team work. B. It fuels doubts about efforts. C. It